Binary read on textmode mount

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Fri Nov 5 18:07:00 GMT 2004


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:00:03PM -0500, Shaffer, Kenneth wrote:
>I see the problem now...  O_BINARY is 0x8000 on mingw and 0x10000 in
>cygwin and I needed a header file from cygwin and use the -I option
>which brought in the wrong fcntl.h ....  Sigh.

You are really asking for trouble.  The fact that you needed to go out
of your way to include a cygwin header file in a windows program should
be a clue to a simple fact: you shouldn't use header files from cygwin
with windows programs.

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